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Historian James Truslow Adams often receives credit for first popularizing the idea of the American dream.
With the War of 1812 and an increasing desire to produce uniquely American literature and culture, a number of key new literary figures emerged, perhaps most prominently Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803â1882) started a movement known as Transcendentalism.athaniel Hawthorne (1804â1864) is notable for his masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter, a novel about adultery. Hawthorne influenced Herman Melville (1819â1891) who is notable for the books Moby-Dick and Billy Budd. America's two greatest 19th-century poets were Walt Whitman (1819â1892) and Emily Dickinson (1830â1886).